Tour Scotland video of the Kerr memorial stained glass window on ancestry visit to Logie Kirk by Stirling, Scotland. To the Glory of God and in loving memory of our parents William and Helen Kerr, Riverbank, 1905 to 1983.
Clan Kerr is a Scottish clan whose origins lie in the Scottish Borders. During the Middle Ages it was one of the prominent border reiver clans along the present-day Anglo Scottish border. The surname name Kerr is rendered in various forms such as Kerr, Ker, Carr, Carre, and Cares. The name stems from the Old Norse kjrr which means marsh dweller, and came to Scotland from Normandy, the French settlement of the Norsemen. Another variant is found on the west coast of Scotland, particularly on the Isle of Arran, taken from the Gaelic ciar, meaning dusky. The Clan Kerr feuded in particular with the Clan Scott. The feud began on the 25 July 1526 when Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch launched an attack at the Battle of Melrose to rescue the young King James V of Scotland who was being held by the Douglas Earl of Angus at Darnick just west of Melrose, and in the ensuing fight Kerr of Cessford was killed.
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